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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-no-2-amendment-rules-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/334",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) (No. 2) Amendment Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-no-2-amendment-rules-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Mental Health\nMade 15th September 2015\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 17th September 2015\nComing into force 16th November 2015\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 21(4) and 326 of, and paragraph 10 of schedule 2 to, the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 asp 13. Section 326 is amended by the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), schedule 18, paragraph 1; the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 9), schedule 5, paragraph 6; the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), sections 16(7) and 36(3); and S.S.I. 2005/465."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/334/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}